Clause 3 of HCA Predicts The Bahamas Will Lose Freeport in 2054
Credit must be given where it is due. Wallace Groves was a genius. Governor Lord Ranfurly and Sir Stafford Sands — the man who styled himself the architect of the Continue Reading
The 50th Murder Victim: TaGia Soles-Armony (1980–2009)
The Bahamas recorded 78 murders in 2007 and 73 in 2008. By the 7th of August 2009, the count for that year had already risen — shockingly, and without pause Continue Reading
Co-Founder and Inheritor: Sir Charles Hayward (1892–1983) and His Son Sir “Union” Jack Hayward (1923–2015)
In Homer’s Odyssey, Telemachus did not choose his inheritance — he was born into a house his father had built, on ground his father had claimed, in the middle of Continue Reading
Freeport’s First Investor: A then 100 year old Abaco Lumber Company 1946
The 1967 Commission of Inquiry into Casino Gambling in The Bahamas is not light reading. But for those willing to sit with its transcript, it begins to illuminate something remarkable Continue Reading
Bahamas Reflected in Machiavelli’s “Great Man” Theory
There is a book, slim enough to hold in one hand, that has never gone out of print since it was first circulated in Renaissance Florence more than five centuries Continue Reading